PROGRAMME
2nd Data Centres Strategies Middle East 2010
Towards Enterprise Clouds? - Data Centre Services Change, User Requirements, and Sustainability
DAY 1
0900h
Official Opening
Guests and Delegates Welcome
Ibrahim Mohamed Lari, Chief Executive Officer, Injazat Data Systems
Leadership and Competition: Managing Business and Customer Change
0915h
SESSION 1: EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE
Managing Data Centre Business and Customer Change
Leaders of data centre provider businesses address key issues for future growth and development
Managing the changing data centre business environment
Emerging cloud and impact
Competing with Green
Regional and International competition
Return on Investment Outlook
Chair: Ghazi Atallah, Managing Director, neXgen Advisory Group
Leadership Panel:
Mr. George Pawlyszyn, Executive Director of Business Development and Strategy, Injazat Data Systems
Basel Dalloul, Chairman & CEO, Noor Group
Anthony Foy, Group Managing Director, Interxion
Bryce Nelson, CTO, Kulacom Communications SPC
Steve O'Donnell, CEO, Meeza
Yasser Zeineldin, CEO, eHosting DataFort
1045h
Networking Break & Exhibition
1115h
SESSION 2: Special Guest Keynote – Private Cloud.
Said Akar, District Manager for South Gulf, EMC
1145h
SESSION 3: : PRIVATE CLOUD AND THE IMPACT ON MANAGED SERVICES
The emergence of private cloud has profound implications for managed services in data centres and the services they offer. What makes private, public, hybrid clouds attractive (or not) to enterprise users?
- Current thinking about cloud services by enterprise users
- Impact of IaaS deployment on enterprise commercial / IT business models and operations
- Market evolution for hosted services and cloud’s impact on enterprise managed services
- Security concerns for migration to cloud services
Chair: Martin Hayward, Associate, Simmons &Simmons
Michael Collins, Lead Technologist for Data Centre Services, Injazat Data Systems
Karl Roe, Director of Strategic Alliances, Meeza
Ammar Halabi, Regional Manager, Data Center & Virtualization, Cisco Systems International
Dirk de Vos, Technical Director, Skye Group
Said Akar, District Manager for South Gulf, EMC
1400h
SESSION 4:STATE OF THE MARKET – REVIEW OF TRENDS AND FORECASTS FOR DATA CENTRES
IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Current trends in demand in data centre markets across Middle East
What has changed and how will this impact?
Where are the new markets?
Key dependencies
Growth Forecasts
Results of new research by BroadGroup presented by Steve Wallage, Managing Director, BroadGroup Consulting
Speaker
Steve Wallage, Managing Director, BroadGroup Consulting
The post-recession data centre opportunity? Financial services and third party outsourcing
1430h
SESSION 5: DATACENTRE SECURITY
Chair: Alexander Shepherd, Partner, Simmons & Simmons
Ronald van Kleunen, Managing Director, Globeron Security
Patrick J. Doliny, Chief Technical Specialist and Technical Delivery Manager, ITQAN
1515h
Networking Break & Exhibition
1545h
SESSION 6: : RAISING FINANCE, OPTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES, ROI FOR DATA CENTRES
Panel discussion of the opportunities and challenges for investment in data centres and Comparative Analysis of IT Infrastructure outsourcing regionally and internationally
- The Developer View: How developers approach investment costs in building Data Centres
- Investor Perspective: Why has sentiment changed towards the sector?
- Property View: Is the model changing for Data Centres? What are the constraints?
- Market structure over the next year
Chair: Steve Wallage, Managing Director, BroadGroup Consulting
Simon Lee, Managing Director, Sapience Capital Partners
Guy Willner, Chairman, Palace Investments
1700h
1st DATA CENTRES MIDDLE EAST Awards Ceremony
1730h
DCSME 2010 Reception
DAY 2
Power and Place
0900h
SESSION 7: Special Guest Keynote - Realizing the value of a Converged Infrastructure
Fawwaz Qadan , Director of Enterprise Storage, Servers and Networking Middle East, Hewlett Packard
0930h
SESSION 8 –REDUCING DATA CENTRE POWER COSTS
Power is the ultimate dollar guzzler.
What are the real practical opportunities to mitigate power consumption in the data centre?
Are there any Innovations in power technologies emerging that will truly support a reduction in power consumption
How will future power supply impact data centre design now?
Chair: Col. Kuldeep Bhatnagar, Program Management Consultant, Environment Agency Abu Dhabi
Ihab Ghattas, Assistant President Middle East, Huawei Technologies
Nico te Riet, Hitec Power Protection Area Manager, EMEA
Jiri Schmidt, Business Development Director, Altron Group
Osama S Ghoul, Managing Partner, Devoteam Middle East
1045h
Networking Break and Exhibition
1115h
SESSION 9: SUSTAINABILITY AND GREEN IN THE DATA CENTRE
Almost everyone agrees on the benefits of enhancing computing power while curtailing energy consumption. The greening of data centres represents a promising opportunity, but whose ever-increasing energy needs continue to result in higher operating costs.
How to achieve more stable energy consumption?
How will carbon emissions from data centres - projected to quadruple by 2020 – be curtailed?
How effective are Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and its inverse, Data centre Efficiency (DCE) as benchmarks and is there an alternative?
Chair: Col. Kuldeep Bhatnagar, Program Management Consultant, Environment Agency Abu Dhabi
Kevin Miller, Customer Project Manager, Hewlett Packard
Duncan Clubb, Principal, CS Technologies
Patrick Le Gentil
1200h
SESSION 10: Service Management for Effective Storage and Data Management
- Discussing the processes and methods that define, characterize, and orient data
- How to address various and necessary data usage and profile characteristics
- Ways to effectively managing data and storage with an IT service management perspective
Speaker
Tarek Jaber, ITSM Gulf Expert Community, Novell Middle East
1400h
Data Centre Surgery - Secrets for a Long & Healthy Life
Considering issues of strategic importance when investing in a Data Centre can greatly improve the longevity of the building, staff welfare and return on investment. Operational efficiency is one of the challenges which can be transformed by the surrounding environment and applications employed to keep costs in check. Over time this will boost the Data Centre’s longevity, efficiency and overall health.
Andrew Harrison hosts The Surgery - An interactive session comprising presentations from key members of Arup’s engineering team and The Clinic - where the audience's data centre aches and pains can be discussed amongst peers and panel. Topics include local case studies, Tier classification, Virtual Reality and the Working Environment.
A unique opportunity to get your Data Centre back into shape.
The workshop is provided by global consulting firm ARUP
Speakers
Stuart Hall, Simulation Specialist, ARUP
Mike Hastings, Associate Electrical Engineer and Accredited Tier Designer, ARUP
Andrew Harrison, Director and Group Leader, ARUP
Ian Neale - Associate Director, ARUP
Stefan Sadokierski - Associate Mechanical Engineer &Accredited Tier Designer, ARUP